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The Chemung River Master Plan for our Future
YOUR FEEDBACK and INPUT are NEEDED!
Chemung County River Maps
Municipal representatives on the River Council include:
Town of Big Flats - Lee
Younge
Town of Elmira - Debbie
Peterson
City of Elmira - Bob Bailey
Town of Southport - Dan
Drake
Town of Ashland - Doc Gee- 734-1892
Town of Chemung - Jim Birney- 565-4064
Chemung County - Terry
McLaughlin
Pictures from May
22, 2007 River Tour courtesy of Sam Draper.
May 22nd River Tour "guide"
Meeting Notes
January 16,
2007
February 13,
2007
March 13, 2007
April 10, 2007
May 8, 2007
June 12,
2007
July 10, 2007
July 24, 2007
August 21, 2007
September 11, 2007
September 25, 2007
October 9, 2007
October 16, 2007
October 23, 2007
November 13, 2007
Grant match form for volunteer time and expenses.
Community Trail Handbook for Landowners
Back ground information
The Chemung River is a tangible and dynamic asset flowing through five
towns and the City of Elmira in Chemung County. The river offers an opportunity
for community and economic development focusing on our most natural and
possibly most ignored asset.
The Chemung River Council is a collaborative city/municipal and community
based steering committee that oversees three 2007 New York State grants
to create a Chemung River Master Plan from Big Flats to the Town of Chemung.
The master plan builds on the River Futures Visioning
Project completed in 2004. Without a comprehensive master plan, the
positive and inspired community voice from the Visioning Project would
be lost. Public, private and municipal projects, if pursued, would be
disjointed and lack the design consistency, community support and regional
pride of a project that builds on a common vision.
The Chemung River Master Plan will leverage recreation and eco-tourism
potential, build safe and regionally connected trails and water corridors,
highlights our rich historic and cultural background and spur economic
and community revitalization locally and regionally.
The River Council not only leads and guides this project but will become
a sustainable group and network with a common interest in the Chemung
River as a pivotal asset. A Greenway Compact amongst the River municipalities
will articulate the principals and common vision to guide future river
corridor development and stewardship.
The Chemung River Master Plan will be complete by early 2008. The next stage of writing proposals to fund implementation of the plan are already underway. The plan includes designs related to recreation, tourism, river access, historic and cultural ties, economic development and our local and regional identity.